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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020

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Re: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020

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Post by newyankee »

afwe wrote: post #5

Francis Mojica, Virginjus Siksnys and others were practically removed from the way. https://twitter.com/LluisMontoliu/status/1313780608305332224

IIRC both these individuals emphasized that their work wouldn't had been possible without many other things working. But then i guess that is how awards work i guess.

Re: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020

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Post by xpuente »

newyankee wrote: post #12
afwe wrote: post #5

Francis Mojica, Virginjus Siksnys and others were practically removed from the way. https://twitter.com/LluisMontoliu/status/1313780608305332224

IIRC both these individuals emphasized that their work wouldn't had been possible without many other things working. But then i guess that is how awards work i guess.

I guess being the first one, might have some merit, right? Mújica was who discover it in 1993. This how science and awards works now: the system corruption is pervasive. There is no potential explanation to exclude Mújica from such award, otherwise.

Re: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020

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Post by fmajid »

tamcap wrote: post #7

Wow, what a plot twist. The Broad Institute researchers got nothing, even though they are currently winning the patent wars. Fascinating.

Sometimes the Nobel makes a pointed statement. As for instance when Einstein got his in 1921, over a decade after his 1905 paper on relativity, for the photoelectric effect, and no mention of special relativity, since it had actually been discovered by Poincaré and Lorentz, and the Academy disapproved of Einstein claiming credit for it.
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